And your point is ??? --- John Lyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently had the opportunity to spend a few hours on the phone with > Microslop's customer service, troubleshooting and fixing a stuck system that > kept wanting to install the Office application on CD, even though I had a > formerly well running copy. When I put the master disk in the drive, it would > still ask for it, and was stuck on this for as long as I tried to reboot, > even uninstalled and reinstalled Office (Excel, Word and Powerpoint are the > three apps that I use the most at work on PC). The first person to answer was > in the East somewhere (maybe India?), and his accent and mine didn't work > well, as I was having to give him the key number off the disk - that really > long string of numbers and letters separated by hyphens. Finally this first > line answerer forwarded me to Nova Scotia where I got a professional, who > spent most of the time on the line, working through various attempts at > correcting the boo boo. I commented about that silly message that always > incorrectly gives > remaining time it will take to install something, and he laughed and said > don't pay it any attention. Eventually we got down to the registry being > corrupted, so we removed all of the references to Microslop Office, and > rebooted, and it fixed the problem. > > Pray that their next generation WINDOZE and application software are more > stable. Meanwhile I use the Mac OS 10.4 for most important work, and save the > PC for webbrowsing and a few dedicated applications to DOS. > 73 > John > K5PRO > > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
